Understanding Data Needs for Vulnerability Assessment and Decision Making to Manage Vulnerability of Department of Defense Installations to Climate Change

Abstract

The Department of Defense (DoD) has identified climate change as a risk to its infrastructure and is seeking to develop efficient and effective processes to assess the vulnerability of its assets to this risk. Responding to this need, we developed, piloted, and evaluated an approach for vulnerability assessment keyed to DoD decision-making needs and processes at multiple organizations levels. We developed and tested methods for use in an overall assessment framework, and a process for assessments at installations that applies extensive stakeholder involvement, a novel approach to providing climate information (likely future exposure), a range of existing models and approaches for estimating impacts, and decision making frameworks.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 2016
Accession Number
AD1025344

Entities

People

  • Alison Delgado
  • Andrew Blohm
  • Elizabeth L. Malone
  • Jennie Rice
  • Jill Brandenberger
  • Justin J. Henriques
  • Linda O. Mearns
  • Melissa Bukovsky
  • Rachel McCrary
  • Richard H. Moss
  • Seth Mcginnis
  • Stephen Broomell
  • Taiping Wang
  • Zhaoqing Yang

Organizations

  • Battelle Memorial Institute

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Birds
  • Climate Change
  • Climate Change Adaptation
  • Environmental Protection
  • Flood Control
  • Habitats
  • Management Personnel
  • Medical Personnel
  • Sea Level Rise
  • Storm Surges

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Aviation Safety Risk Assessment.
  • Economics
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.